Just another love story (I)

It began with a random laboratory session
With Bernoulli’s theorem he left quite an impression
At first she was pleased someone bothered to explain
She found the boy rather considerate and sane

Gradually the lab classes began getting tougher
And with each passing day the boy seemed cuter
She started looking forward to the boring lecture
Girlfriends thought no one was crazier than her

She decided his saunter was simply fabulous
And that lazy drawl was beyond marvellous
His heart-warming smile was too divine
His sharp sense of humour was oh-so-fine

Each time they talked she tried to find
If he liked her back or was only being kind
He was beyond her, a concerned soul said
She alarmed herself with the tears she shed

She spent her days trying to catch his glimpse
Her friends did not say much but they could sense
She had taken the fall and was tumbling farther
Nobody could say what would become of her

Merciless love

Stinging from your brazen wittiness
Incensed at excessive unpretentiousness
Doubtful after recent disregard
Was previous reverence mere façade?

I find myself irate, unnerved
A mortified sob goes unheard

Your incorrigible madness is exhausting
Nonchalant statements so frustrating
The reluctance to amend in return for affection
Am I to you just a whimsical distraction?

I mope and think in trepidation
Should have chosen love with more precision

Then just like that you smile and beckon
I scowl and look away in slow deliberation
And from my window watch the sparrows
You amble over and stand too close

Then brush cool fingertips against my eyelashes
A sigh escapes you and forehead creases

Million murmured apologies and many thousand hushes
Wrapped in love while my anger turns to ashes
Misgivings are wiped out little by little
Sentiments are so vehement yet fickle

You mock my tears yet wipe them dry
Without this merciless love life would be awry.